03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
...Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman to design commercially owned and operated space stations in low Earth orbit (LEO) to replace the International Space Station (ISS), the space agency said in an announcement yesterday. The contracts, worth a total amount...
25 July 2022
Space Station payload to test superfast EO data delivery and AI analysis
... data access and analysis company, have been selected to deploy an Earth observation (EO) payload on the International Space Station (ISS). The payload, known as Onboard Programmable Technology for Image Classification and Analysis (OPTICA), will...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... extended the stay of Starliner at the International Space Station (ISS) this time into July, raising questions ...managers are evaluating future return opportunities which will follow the Space Station’s two planned spacewalks on June 24 and July 2,” ...
04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
.... The agency’s concern with Starliner - which flew NASA astronauts ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) in early June - comes from not having identified a root cause for why multiple of the spacecraft’s thrusters...
